THE STORY VIEW OF THE HATRED TO MR. GLADSTONE.
To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."]
am sorry again to trouble you. I cannot, however, for- bear say'ng that in your first article to-day, as in other articles on the same subject, you utterly ignore the one great reason for the bitterness shown towards Mr. Gladstone, which I, for one,
regret. That reason is the deep-seated conviction in the minds' of all supporters of the late Government that his opposition to that Government was unfair, ungenerous, and bitter in the extreme.
Often during that opposition did I say that he was rousing a bitter spirit in politics which it would take a generation to allay. My words have come too true. I mourn over it, but the present bitterness is the natural result of the conduct of himself and others before and during the election of 1880. What a man soweth, that shall he also reap.
Forgive me, if I once more say how deeply I deplore the altered tone of the Spectator, and its unfairness towards political opponents. It was not always so.—I am, Sir, &c.,
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